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Traveling en masse was once occasioned mainly by such events as reunions or bachelor parties. Now travelers invent their own occasions, whether it's an all-girls outing, a male-bonding trip or a multifamily jaunt. Singles say they prefer to travel with pals, without the baggage of loneliness and the extra single-supplement charges for traveling alone. But even married couples cite the urge to get away with the gang. "People assume those who travel with friends are single, but that's not the case anymore," says Cathy Keefe of the Travel Industry Association of America...
...Fuzzy Zoeller jokes? One can only speculate as to what really attracted TIGER WOODS, 27, to Swedish former swimsuit model ELIN NORDEGREN, 23. Woods proposed to Nordegren at a game reserve in South Africa last week, where he played in the Presidents Cup. Sport's most eligible bachelor met his fiance two years ago while she was an au pair for a fellow golfer. Around that time, Woods' father predicted his son wouldn't marry before age 30, saying, "A wife can sometimes be a deterrent to a good game of golf." Upon hearing this, presumably, Woods' rivals all raced...
...financial security of the academics rather than the education of the young. So what are the radical reforms suggested by the present government that have been so strongly resisted by so many? They are essentially the harmonization of French diplomas (at levels that would become, essentially, a bachelor's, a master's and a Ph. D.) with those of the rest of Europe and a greater localization of authority over French universities, allowing individual universities more autonomy over their budgets. Modest proposals, are they not? But the force of the protests already has government backing away from them because...
...would you appear on “The Bachelor...
...brand.” And VF writer James Wolcott couldn’t help but be impressed by the twins and their aura, concluding that, “Unlike the Bush daughters or the Hilton sisters, who always look as if they were about to pop out of a bachelor-party cake, M-K and Ash, as they’re known in the hood, are modest, demure, able to walk without weaving.” The very fact that Vanity Fair interviewed the twins in the first place is telling of the indelible mark they have made on American...